296 FEATURES OF FRENCH NATIONAL FOREST ADMINISTRATION 



on the basis of the material cut and stacked, since it is often difficult to 

 estimate the product accurately in advance. (3) By unit of product after 

 the timber has been exploited by the State; this method is rarely used. 



Before any timber sale is made it is customary to advertise the lots 

 very widely, and there are strict laws against combinations or agree- 

 ments to eliminate competition. The method of describing the lot to 

 be sold differs somewhat in the different conservations, and according to 

 the material to be disposed of, but as a rule the purchaser is given an 

 exact and complete description of the product, the conditions he must 

 work under, and his obligations for road repair or other charges.^' 



Orders have been issued to make small sales, because if large only a 

 few of the larger manufacturing companies can compete. The writer 

 attended the sale of 102 lots (each a separate small timber sale) at 



" Two examples of the data furnished purchasers are given below: 



(1) In the Oloron inspection a sale of timber to be removed in thinning was described 

 as follows: 



Thinning on 4.94 hectares, including the felling of stems designated or to be desig- 

 nated. 



Estimated product — 1 cubic meter of building material, 8 cubic meters of small 

 building material, 80 steres of cordwood, 150 fagots. 



Boundaries — Correspond to the compartment. 



Logging — Existing roads. 



Estimated prices — 12 francs per cubic meter of building material, 6 francs per 

 cubic meter of small building material, 1.50 francs per stere of firewood, 2 francs per 

 100 fagots. 



(2) In the Saint Di6 inspection even more data were given in the booklet describing 

 a regeneration feUing. 



Art. 49 — Forest of Moyenmoutier (first working group), Balthazard Canton, 

 Compartment 13 (Lot No. 1), Beat of, etc. 



Regeneration felling, 98 trees and 16 poles, to wit: 



Diameters: 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90 



64 spruce: 2, 3, 3, 4, 6, 5, 10, 9, 8, 7, 3, 3, 1 



33 beech: 9, 2, 2, 4, 3, 9, 1, 3, 

 1 oak: 1 



Estimated product — Fir, 261 meters of sawlogs, 39 steres of fuel; beech, 61 steres; 

 oak and miscellaneous, 3 steres. 



Boundaries — North Compartment 12, east, same, south, second lot, west, communal 

 forest of Raon-l'fitape. 



Sawmill — Use of the Federal sawmill Bris6genoux commencing with the day after 

 the sale of December 31, 1910. 



Francs 

 Charges — 1. Maintenance of roads 250 



2. Cutting back beech 10 



3. Furnishing 16 steres of beech fuel for the forest house at 



Balthazard, making and transport being estimated at a 

 value of 45 



Total charges 305 



Cleaning — Estimated at 5 steres of first-class fuel. 

 Number of trees to hmb before felling, 23. 

 fitival railroad station, 6 kilometers. 



